Endoscopic intrauterine surgery in primates: Overcoming technical obstacles

Surgical Endoscopy

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 420-426

  Oberg, K C ^a,b,c   Robles, A E ^a   Ducsay, C A ^a   Rasi, C R ^a   Rouse, G A ^b   Childers, B J ^b   Evans, M L ^a   Kirsch, W M ^a   Hardesty, R A ^b  

^a LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Divisions Plast and Reconstr Surg ^*  (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Baboon; Cleft lip; Endoscopy; Fetal surgery; Fetoscopy; Primate; Wound healing

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BABOON; CLEFT LIP; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FETOSCOPY; FETUS; FETUS SURGERY; LAPAROTOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENDOSCOPES; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; FETOSCOPES; FETOSCOPY; FETUS; PAPIO; PREGNANCY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0032969555     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004649901004     Document Type: Article

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